Hello!
I want to make use of the function strnset() which I found explained on many webpages. They all include the string.h but on my machine (Debian Sid) I don`t have this function in my string.h
Thats why I get a linker error: undefined reference to 'strnset'.


Does anyone know where do I get this non ANSI-C function?

xxfunkxx

This appears to be a function provided by the QNX operating system, and is also found in Borland's Turbo C.

If you're not worried about supporting Unicode, UTF-8 or other double-byte character sets, you can just use memset and pass it the same arguments.

The only difference between the two is that memset allows you to put characters that are more than one byte long into a string; libc currently doesn't support multi-byte characters (someone please correct me if I'm wrong!) so you won't find an efficient strnset function on GNU/Linux (yet).

memset() did work

thank you

xxfunkxx